Finished the spray-screen project. I need to come back and put gratings and seat in to finish it.
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File comment: Both screens installed. Head need gratings and "seat-of-ease."
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File comment: Both spray-screens installed
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I should have done this as a "winter project." but I started painting the crew figures, though I only had
flesh-tones from a kit I bought a while back, so I order more colors and paint hands and face in the meantime.
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File comment: Started painting the crew I have so far, but only have "flesh-tones" for hands and faces
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When the paint arrived, the crew got painted
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File comment: When the paint arrived, the crew got painted
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I plan to have upwards of 40 figures doing stuff like these fellas drilling the aft pivot gun
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File comment: She won't look like a ghost-ship now
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I set up to print another batch of the stock files I have, but four failed to print. The seven that survived got cleaned, mounted on chip-board stands, and primed black.
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File comment: Meanwhile another batch of "stock" guys was printing
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While they were printing I modified some files to give guys straw-hats, and a sponger in a different pose.
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File comment: Modified some figure files to have straw hats and a reposed sponger
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The paint scheme, BTW, is based on the only image I could find of an American sailor of the 1850 (I think most other pictures are Brits)
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File comment: Only pic of an IDed as American sailor of the 1850s
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